Engineering the Stem Cell Microenvironment

Track Chair(s)

• MW

  Marissa Wechsler

  Assistant Professor
  The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
• MH

  Monica Hinds, PhD

  Professor
  Oregon Health & Science University, United States
• EM

  Erika Moore

  Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland
• BA

  Brian Aguado

  Assistant Professor
  Bioengineering
  University of California, San Diego

Moderator(s)

• 

  Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• 

  Moriah Katt

  West Virginia University

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  CELL ADHESIVE AND GROWTH FACTOR MIMICKING PEPTIDES WORK SYNERGYSTICALLY TO INFLUENCE OSTEOGENIC ACTIVITY IN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
  

  Presenting Author: Sydney Neal (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis

  Co-Author: Era Jain – Syracuse University

  Co-Author: Xiaohong Tan (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis

  Co-Author: Lori Setton – Washington University in St. Louis

  Primary Investigator: Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD (he/him/his) – Washington University in St.Louis
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Microfluidic Isolation and Identification of True Glioblastoma Stem Cells
  

  Presenting Author: James Shamul, MS – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Joe Karboski – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Chunmei Shi – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa – Mayo Clinic

  Co-Author: Shuo Gu – National Cancer Institute

  Primary Investigator: Xiaoming "Shawn" He – University of Maryland
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  Engineered gelatin hydrogels as a well-defined, tunable substrate for cortical brain organoid models
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew Kjar – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Mia Haschert – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Corinne Curry – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Alexis Yates – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Ethan Lippmann – Vanderbilt University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Soft Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogels Regulate Pluripotency and Morphogenesis in three-dimensional Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Culture
  

  Presenting Author: Michael P. Seitz – Syracuse University

  Co-Author: Yuanhui Song (he/him/his) – Syracuse University

  Primary Investigator: Zhen Ma – Syracuse University

  Last Author: Era Jain – Syracuse University
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Seeing Double for Mechanobiology: Discrete biomaterial softening of IPNs through orthogonal enzymatic degradation
  

  Presenting Author: Irina Kopyeva, BSE – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Ethan Goldner – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Ross Bretherton – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Christina Yang – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Kaitlyn Vera – University of Washington

  Primary Investigator: Cole A. DeForest, PhD – University of Washington
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Controlled 3D Stem Cell Culture Using Noise-free and Specific Signaling Culture Systems
  

  Presenting Author: Erica Wagner – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Di Liu – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Shaili Lakhotia – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Srishti Khetan – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Shuibing Chen – Weill Cornell Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Shaoyi Jiang – Cornell University